Myth #4: ‘‘The Commission's political and administrative leadership is weak' Finding #4: ‘Under Barroso, the Commission Presidency has become increasingly powerful, due partly to the new role given to the Secretariat General'

The research team collected primary source material as follows:

An online survey, ‘The Commission of the 21st Century: views from the inside', administered September to November 2008, in English-, French- and German- language versions

the survey was administered to AD officials in policy-related DGs (N=31) only

the target sample was 4621, weighted to reflect population distributions (the total population in Brussels and Luxembourg in September 2008 was 14,730)